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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Notaphylic_C, post: 8200699, member: 130786&quot;]Unless you&#039;re a brick layer (or have loads of callouses on your fingertips), you should be able to feel a difference between a banknote &amp; regular paper.&nbsp; They&#039;re worlds apart. Notes have been made of a cotton-rag mixture &amp; other materials (eg: flax) to form a more durable &quot;substrate.&quot; Different series may also have a different feel. Printing companies have used variations in the percentage of pulp to linen/cotton in order to improve a note&#039;s longevity. It has usually changed over time (esp: WWII era notes). The inks were raised so that they would give a specific feel &amp; the printing process creates the embossing I wrote about earlier.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>New currency also has a distinct odour so it may be a good idea to smell some regular new notes. The smell diminishes on older worn notes (&amp; they can just smell bad on soiled/oily notes).&nbsp; As [USER=73266]@Hommer[/USER] &amp; [USER=17469]@Dave M[/USER] suggested it wouldn&#039;t hurt to go through a stack of ONES in various stages of circulation, feel them &amp; try to estimate their grades. Another look-for is the centre of the design (or the width of the margins) &amp; whether the front design lines up with the reverse design (registration). All these are factors considered going into the numbers of higher grade notes.&nbsp; Here&#039;s another <a href="https://en.numista.com/forum/topic108343.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/forum/topic108343.html" rel="nofollow">thread re: grading banknotes</a> on Numista with some links/online resources. I have no problem admitting I was very inconsistent at grading banknotes initially - it just took me a while to develop a critical eye &amp; to practice applying the standards objectively.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW: even today&#039;s polymer (if you ever get to check it out) has raised ink &amp; a distinct feel to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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